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Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

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Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

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I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

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I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it's a great honour.

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Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.

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I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

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Never underestimate the power of denial.

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I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

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I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

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We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

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I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. I don't necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don't necessarily have access to.

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The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.

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I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

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Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

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Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.

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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

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I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.

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The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

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